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Puritan clergyman, scholar, and author who countenanced the Salem witch trials (1663–1728). Unsigned handwritten manuscript by Cotton Mather, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 3.75 x 6, July 5, 1703. A neatly penned sermon in his diminutive hand, in part: "How can I utter such an awful sound without using…words of Jeremiah 4:19. An alarm has been sounded in the midst of you…O Lord. You have been awakened with the admonition & exhortation…yourselves…This is ye plot, and O you people of God, be you never so just…will ye wicked plot again to you and call upon you with highest. But alas you may be saved." The text features a number of deletions and revisions, including several passages written in the left borders. In very good to fine condition, with scattered small areas of ink erosion, several small professional silking repairs, and light show-through from text on opposing sides. An unusually lengthy example from this very rare and controversial clergyman.
Mather refers to Jeremiah 4:19, which reads: 'My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.'
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